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Latest Fact-Checks By Louis Jacobson

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Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Under his tax plan, "the greatest gains, percentage-wise," will be "at the lower end of our plan."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • November 4, 2015
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
The debt limit deal "allows President Obama to borrow unlimited amounts of money."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • November 2, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
"Under Barack Obama and the big government economy, the median wage for women has dropped $733."
False
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
"I never said that" Marco Rubio was Mark Zuckerberg’s personal senator.
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
stated on October 28, 2015 a Republican presidential debate in Boulder, Colo.
Bernie Sanders’s plan is "to raise your taxes to 90 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 29, 2015
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Viral image
stated on October 23, 2015 posts on the Internet
Unlike Benghazi, there were no investigations of the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, none about key aspects of the 9/11 attacks and the Iraq War, and none about embassy attacks under George W. Bush.
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 27, 2015
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Viral image
stated on October 21, 2015 an image on the Internet
"CNN's Crap Polling" is so bad that it shows that "no one under the age of 50 has an opinion of Hillary Clinton."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 21, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on October 14, 2015 a speech.
"We have the highest tax rate anywhere in the world."
False
By Louis Jacobson, Warren Fiske • October 20, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on October 18, 2015 an interview on NBC's 'Meet the Press'
"Republican leadership took the lead confirming Loretta Lynch as attorney general."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 18, 2015
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Viral image
stated on October 15, 2015 a graphic circulating on the Internet
Says Bernie Sanders once said, "Instead of removing the conditions that make people depressed, modern society gives them antidepressant drugs."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 16, 2015
Jim Webb
Jim Webb
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"Fifteen out of the 20 most polluted cities in the world" are in India and China.
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 15, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on October 13, 2015 a Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas
"African-American youth unemployment is 51 percent. Hispanic youth unemployment is 36 percent."
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • October 14, 2015
Ben Carson
Ben Carson
stated on October 8, 2015 an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer
"In the class of 1968 at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Mahmoud Abbas was one of the members of that class, and so was Ali Khamenei. And that's where they first established relationships with the young Vladimir Putin."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 9, 2015
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on October 2, 2015 a press conference
Today, the deficit is "below the average deficits over the past 40 years."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2015
Carly Fiorina
Carly Fiorina
stated on September 30, 2015 an interview on Fox News' "Hannity"
Planned Parenthood "is an organization that funnels millions of dollars in political contributions to pro-abortion candidates."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 5, 2015
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on September 28, 2015 a press conference
The unemployment rate may be as high as "42 percent."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • September 30, 2015
John Kasich
John Kasich
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation"
"When I left Washington, we had a $5 trillion surplus."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 29, 2015
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on September 27, 2015 an interview on "Fox News Sunday"
The tax policies of George W. Bush "created a dynamic effect of high growth."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 27, 2015
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on September 21, 2015 an interview with CBS' Stephen Colbert
"When (Ronald) Reagan came in, from 1978 to 1982, economic growth averaged less than 1 percent a year. There’s only one other four-year period where that’s true. That’s true from 2008 to 2012."
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • September 25, 2015
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